Comments | winkingstar: I wrote my first computer program in Python! \o/

winkingstar

I wrote my first computer program in Python! \o/

Jan 17, 2010 12:00

Not my first computer program ever, 'cause I took an intro computer science class before I started my master's, but for that course we just used some Microsoft language I can't even remember the name of, rather than a language that anyone actually uses. So now I've written my first program in a language that is used more widely. It's just a dumb ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

mirabile_dictu January 17 2010, 18:27:28 UTC

Wow, congratulations! I'm seriously impressed.

When I retire (oh, how often do I say those words), that's one of the many things I'd like to do.

winkingstar January 18 2010, 04:55:15 UTC

Thanks! It's pretty cool! :)

monkey_junkey January 18 2010, 09:35:01 UTC

Eee, programming is hard! I wish you luck with it. I started JavaScript a few months ago and it definitely makes me go, "...bwuh??"

winkingstar January 18 2010, 17:31:00 UTC

It is! This was just an easy program, but the next one is trickier!

I never actually learned JS properly, just the bits of code I needed at the time, and that was definitely very "...bwuh??"

propinquitine January 18 2010, 20:12:30 UTC

Oh, fascinating that the first use of "bug" was 1889! I'd heard this story about the moth in the Harvard mainframe in 1947, but I love that people were positing imaginary beasties well before that!

winkingstar January 18 2010, 20:32:37 UTC

So fascinating! That's 120 years of bugs-in-the-machines!

Also, I love that the Harvard folks taped the actual moth to their log book. :) We should try to find it at NMAH sometime!

propinquitine January 18 2010, 21:10:19 UTC

Oh yes, we could do that! Score one for being near the National museums! If we go to NMAH, I can also show you the statute of George Washington that enrages my mother.

winkingstar January 19 2010, 01:38:57 UTC

Excellent!